Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco, gilt., Decoration: some initials, line fillers, underlining, in red ink., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Script: gothic bookhand., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Foyle, William A.--(William Alfred),--1885-1963--Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a version of this fourteenth-century pastoral manual. The text is in eight sections, or Tabulae, in Latin, with extensive passages in Middle English prose and interpolated Middle English verse.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century morocco., Decoration: red and blue initials with contrasting penwork., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., and Script: written in an English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Clergy--Early works to 1800., Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Foyle, William Alfred,--1885---Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--Early works to 1800., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Ma